The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 13 Xfce RC. Linux Mint 13 Xfce New features at a glance: Xfce 4.10 mintMenu and MATE applets MDM Artwork improvements Search engines For a complete overview and to see screenshots of the new features, visit: “What’s new in Linux Mint 13 Xfce“. Important [...]

mintMenu is fully functional in Xfce but it isn't installed by default in this RC release. To install it, install mintinstall and xfce4-xfapplet-plugin. Add the xfapplet to your panel and edit its properties to load mintMenu.

Oh. So xfapplet has been updated after all, and users can install mintMenu. That's good

Let's move any discussion about Xfce vs. MATE to chat please. This is the announcement of the RC, so leave it in peace for the Xfce users. As you can see from the polls, a lot of users prefer Xfce: viewtopic.php?f=143&t=100787

Is there a way to have the Xfce menu and panel at the top of the screen like in Xubuntu? If possible, I would like to get the Xfce login screen back too…I REALLY like them, both from functional and aesthetic points of view. I am happy to have Mint 13 under the hood, but I do not want Xfce to look like Gnome 2 .

Having the Panel bar at the top of the screen DOES reduce the amount of movement of your cursor ( up and down ) , and saves a lot of time in a long editing job. With Gnome or KDE the first thing I do is move the Panel to the top.I agree , this is a very useful option.

Right-Click in the panelSelect 'Panel' > 'Panel Preferences'UN-Check 'Lock Panel'Then grab the panel by either end (Handle) and drag it up to the top!Lock it again, if you like.

Xfce is now my favoured desk, whereas I was quite sad to lose Mint LXDE at first!I'm in for this LTS release of Mint Xfce now.Xubuntu 12.04 also impresses me, but it lacks the sensible update strategy of Linux Mint.

You can perhaps remove mint-meta-mate and mint-info-mate, then install mint-meta-xfce and mint-info-xfce. You will still have a lot of Mate programs in your menu but should be able to select Xfce on the login screen with one of the three big buttons.

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